Judgment_paragraph 3 · C-233/78

3The question has been raised within the context of disputes between the Bundesamt für Ernährung und Forstwirtschaft, the intervention agency in the Federal Republic of Germany, and various German wine producers, two in Case 233/78, four in Case 234/78 and four in Case 235/78, who had formed groups so as to lodge applications for the conclusion of storage contracts for table wines provided for by Regulation No 2015/76. The Bundesamt für Ernährung und Forstwirtschaft rejected those applications on the ground that the minimum quantity of 100 hectolitres to which each contract must relate according to Article 5 of that regulation was not reached because the required quantity was stocked by the various producers in different cellars, whereas in the opinion of the Bundesamt für Ernährung und Forstwirtschaft the regulation in question requires that the minimum quantity of 100 hl must be stored in a single place of storage.